Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12616  

It has been discovered that tomcat version 7.0.80 and before are vulnerable to information disclosure. When using a VirtualDirContext it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Information disclosure

Description

It has been discovered that tomcat version 7.0.80 and before are vulnerable to information disclosure. When using a VirtualDirContext it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request.

AVG-408 tomcat7 7.0.80-1 7.0.81-1 Medium Fixed

19 Sep 2017 ASA-201709-17 AVG-408 tomcat7 Medium information disclosure

https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201709.mbox/%3C0b45dcb1-28e2-6e12-6320-5bc6d021063c%40apache.org%3E
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1804729